Weston's First Day of Kindergarten

Well, here he is, the amazing Kindergarten Boy! His first day was August 26, 2008. What a beautiful boy!This is his school: Foothills Elementary (probably largest in the state!!!)

This is his whole class.His friend Griffin who is (fortunately) in his class. Isn't he DARLING? So glad they will be together. I was worried he wouldn't have any friends in his class, and he is so shy... Does he look excited to be there? He is just being silly.
He is actually very happy and a hard working kid.
Here is his teacher, Mrs. Colvin. The best teacher in the school!
And here I am saying goodbye to my sweetie. No tears for me (truly, I am not a crier). But, I am emotional to see my baby all grown up. I am proud of him for being brave and being such a good, happy, obedient boy.

He hasn't been very excited about this change; he has often told me he is "nervous" for school. We have talked a lot about it, read books about it, prayed about, and he had a blessing. He actually asked for the blessing. The day before Kinder, I took him in for assessment. He didn't do very well at first--kinda freaked out, he wouldn't do what the teacher told him, and then he hit me (the teacher even gasped... arghhh!). I put him in "time out" and the teacher just sat there doing her thing and I filled out papers. Then, after talking with him, he did just fine. The first day of school, I got to spend a half hour or so with him and he seemed to enjoy it. He had a moment of "getting scared", but got over it, and I was able to leave without incident! Hip Hip Hooray!

I guess it really didn't hit me that he was actually "in school", until he came home and asked me, "Mom, can dad do an arm fart?" (you know, the silly things boys do in their armpits). Hmmm. I guess he is picking up on new stuff already. I have tried to keep him in a bubble as long as possible. I guess you can't protect them forever. At least it is just an armfart (which we corrected--we don't say fart--armtoot) and not something worse! (and, by the way, I have never heard by husband do an armtoot)

Reminder

Hey folks, the weekend is coming up fast!!! Is your house clean? Mine is FAR from it! Wow, busy week (Kinder assessment, first day of school, Aidan's doctors appointment, mission companion in town for a day, laundry, cooking, and normal mother activities...) So, I haven't even touched my house, and I really want to post my Online Parade of Homes!!!

Just a reminder, if you want to participate (thanks to Callie for already posting hers!!!) we have got to get going! We made the goal for this weekend (It really doesn't matter when, I just thought by one date, it would give us incentive, etc...) Anyway. I want to check out your homes and cute ideas! Callie's house is darling! Go see it everybody (see post below for instructions)!

All right for now...

Well, I don't know if it was a total waste of time, but I took Aidan up to the neurologist. Talked with the assistant for 20 minutes, waited for an hour, then talked to the doctor for five minutes. Really all that was said was that he needs to have an EEG and MRI for them to be able to see anything or tell if he will have more seizures or not. So, in three weeks (you know how scheduling thest things can be...), I'll go back up with him (this time for 5-7 hours) and he'll have those tests. Not much else to report. At least there isn't bad news, right?

Camping Trip

I forgot to post this weeks ago.

We had one free weekend this month, so we decided to do a family camping trip. The boys love to sleep out in the back yard with Scott, but we wanted to do it as a family, and have it be a real camping experience. It was. Or rather, it was as much a camping experience that I like to have. Scott's parents have a tent trailer. We packed everything up and Friday afternoon picked up the trailer and headed up to Big Cottonwood Canyon. Every campsite was full!!! I didn't know you could go camping, but not be able to go. I just figured that you just go camping... I haven't ever been where I have had to plan it, I guess... But, Scott's dad has Stake Property (he is the Stake President) near Park City, so we drove across Guardsman's pass (if anybody knows about it, you don't leisurely drive across...) and went through Park City and then up to the property. So, it took us longer to get to our camping destination than we hoped, but at least we had a place to camp.

We had tin foil dinner (one of my favorites), roasted marshmallows, played games, told camping stories, had a dutch oven breakfast, went on a beautiful hike, had two deer pass right by our trailer, and loved every minute of it! The kids just loved it all. I love to be able to get away just for one night (usually that is all I can take). We are hoping to make it an activity we do more often!

Swimming Lessons

Weston has now finished his Fourth round of swimming lessons. He is finally getting used to it, and only had one occasion where he freaked out and wouldn't get in the pool (as opposed to the mannnny times in lessons before). Aidan really loved it and jumped right in each time. They both are getting better about putting their faces in the water, and Weston has been learning to do the front float and back float. Weston especially loves to hold on to the wall and then push off (in the waiting arms of his teacher of course). Aidan's favorite thing is to hop on one foot. I don't know why, they must have done it once or something, but everytime he gets in, he wants to show me that he can jump on one foot in the water (and he refers to it often--"Mom, remember that I hop on one foot when I am in the pool?"). I am proud of both of them. We missed the last day (because of Aidan's seizure), so we haven't gotten a "certificate of completion", but they are happy swimmer boys!

And although Brennan didn't take lessons, when we go to the splash pad, he gets right in on the fun!

End of Summer

Here we are at the end of summer. Well, that just means that school is beginning. I started thinking about all the fun things we did. To show the kids that we really do try and give them fun things to do, I will highlight those fun things here!

Aquarium

This is the Place park

Camping

Lake Powell

Dinosaur Museum

Swimming Lessons

Swimming

Lemonade Stands

Splash Pad

Canoeing

Parade and 4th of July Fun

Birthday Parties

T-Ball

That seems like a lot, doesn't it? And amongst all that we had stitches and a seizure. It has been a full fun summer. Enjoy it boys, cause winter is coming

Spoils of War

War with our garden that is...

This year our garden has given us more trouble than usual. Last year our brocolli and lettuce were amazing! This year we did not get much at all! Being out of town a lot and doing so many activities didn't help (see my other post...). But, Scott is amazing, and he has excelled at tomatoes, onions, and green peppers. Our carrots, potatoes, and pumpkin are also looking great!